Kreator - Endless Pain

Band/artist - Kreator
Genre(s) - Thrash metal
Origin - Germany
Album - Endless Pain
Year of release - Early 1985

I bought Endless Pain on a whim when I was 14 and at that time it was the most extreme cd that I had, but it was instant love. Thrash metal is not my type of music - too angular - and to this date, Kreator are perhaps the only band that I can really say I like. Endless Pain, their debut, is a darker, cruder, slower affair than the three or four 'classic' albums that followed, in fact there's a lot of early Bathory in here. Texts are mostly about satan and killing people, rather a pity but you must remember it was the spirit of the times and these guys were no more than teens when they wrote this. Most of the songs have excellent riffage and the dank dungeon smell of eighties' old school thrash and proto-black metal makes this one of Kreator's most interesting releases. Tormentor and Flag of Hate, two of the best songs, are still played live today and notice the cool, almost epic bridges in Dying Victims and Son of Evil.

1. Endless pain
2. Total death
3. Storm of the beast
4. Tormentor
5. Son of evil
6. Flag of hate
7. Cry war
8. Bonebreaker
9. Living in fear
10. Dying victims
    

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